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2007 discharge: European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction EMCDDA

2008/2258(DEC)

PURPOSE: presentation of the final accounts of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) for the 2007 financial year.

CONTENT: this document sets out a detailed account of the implementation of the EMCDDA’s 2007 budget. It indicates that EMCDDA’s final budget amounted to 14.4 million EUR in 2007 (compared with 13.1 million EUR in 2006) 93% of which is derived from a Community subsidy.

In terms of personnel, the EMCDDA, whose headquarters are in Lisbon (Portugal) had 82 posts in its establishment plan, 73 of which are occupied and 25 others (auxiliary contracts, contract staff and temporary replacements) amounting to 98 posts undertaking operational, administrative or mixed tasks.

In 2007, the EMCDDA’s activities mainly focused on:

Publications

  • Annual report on the state of the drug problem in Europe; 23 language versions, publication and interactive website);
  • Selected issues published alongside the Annual report (3 issues, publication, summaries and interactive website, EN);
  • Statistical bulletin and interactive website containing over 350 tables, 100 graphs and PDF files;
  • General activities report — annual, EN;
  • Drugnet Europe newsletter — 4 issues, EN;
  • Drugs in Focus (policy briefings) — 3 issues, 25 language versions;
  • Technical and scientific studies, including Articles and scientific summaries 57.

Set-up/updating/content development of public EMCDDA website

  • Drug profiles,
  • Country situation summaries,
  • Country data profiles,
  • Drug treatment overviews,
  • European legal database on drugs,
  • Evaluation instruments bank,
  • Exchange on drug demand reduction action,
  • FONTE: a data collection, validation, storage and retrieval system.

Promotional brochures: 3 products.

Media products: 174 miscellaneous products.

Participation in international conferences/meetings: 230.

Organisation of technical and scientific meetings: 41.

The Observatory’s full accounts are available from the following address:

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=public.Content&nnodeid=6465&sLanguageiso=EN